- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- L. B. Sullivan, city commissioner of public safety, addressing a crowd during a civil rights demonstration in Montgomery, Alabama, probably ordering them to disperse.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1967-06
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights demonstrations
Police
Photographers
Montgomery (Ala.)
Montgomery County (Ala.) - People:
- Sullivan, L. B.
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- He is reading a sheet of paper while speaking into a microphone attached to a bullhorn; a uniformed police officer is holding the speaker. Several marches and demonstrations took place in Montgomery in June 1967. They were discussed in an article ("Marches Held in Capital") on pages 1 and 6 of The Southern Courier for June 17-18, 1967, and in an article ("Goals No Closer for Marchers in Capital") and a photo spread ("Montgomery Marches") on pages 1 and 3 of The Southern Courier for June 24-25, 1967. The issues are available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No25_1967_06_17.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No26_1967_06_24.pdf
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/1992
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:1992/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History.
- Original Collection:
- Peppler, James
Jim Peppler Southern Courier photograph collection
LPP106, Box 2, Binder 3 - Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
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